Columbia/HCA Steps Closer
To Changing Its Identity

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. took another step toward a new identity, hauling down large signs emblazoned with the corporate logo from the side of corporate headquarters here.

For weeks, it has been generally accepted that the nation's largest health-care company would change its name, in the wake of image-damaging headlines about the federal government's wide-ranging investigation of alleged Medicare fraud at the...